Guard-book containing copies of Newdigate Prize poems

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MS. Top. Oxon. c. 520

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Guard-book containing copies of Newdigate Prize poems, 1960 onwards:

(fols. 1-4) 'Words and Wings', John Leopold Fuller, 1960;
(fols. 5-6) 'May-Morning', Stanley Johnson, 1962;
(fols. 7-9) 'Disease', James Hamilton-Paterson, 1964;
(fols. 10-12) 'Fear', Peter Jay, 1965;
(fols. 13-41) 'Japan Opened', James M. Fenton, 1968;
(fols. 42-57) 'Instructions to a Printer: a poem in three parts', William Radice, 1970;
(fol. 58) 'The Ancestral Face', Neil Rhodes, 1972;
(fols. 59-61) 'The Wife's Tale', Christopher M. Mann, 1973;
(fols. 62-70) 'Death of a Poet', Alan Hollinghurst, 1974;
(fols. 71-89) 'The Tides', Andrew Motion, 1975;
(fols. 90-98) 'Some thoughts on Berthe Morisot's "Le Berceau", what it is and what it isn't, by Jeremy FACE', 1976;
(fols. 99-103) 'The Fool', Michael King, 1977;
(fols. 104-108) 'Souvenirs', Gordon Wattles, 1982;
(fols. 109-116) 'Fear: The Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer', James A. Leader, 1984;
(fols. 117-118) 'Epithalamion', W. D. Morris, 1986;
(fols. 121-128) 'Memoirs of Tiresias', Bruce John Gibson, 1987;
(fols. 129-130) 'Palimpsest at Thebes', Michael Felix Suarez, 1987.

Dates

Creation: 1960-1987

Extent

130 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Top. Oxon. c. 520, fols. 1-2].

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Shelfmark:

MS. Top. Oxon. c. 520

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 9071, 9399, 10208, 10468, 11222, 18209

Additional Description

Abstract

Guard-book containing copies of Newdigate Prize poems, 1960 onwards.

Biographical / Historical

John Fuller (b.1937) is a poet and author.

Stanley Patrick Johnson (b.1940) is an author and former politician.

James Hamilton-Paterson (b.1941) is a poet and novelist.

Peter Jay (b.1945) is a classicist and the editorial director of Anvil Press.

James Martin Fenton (b.1949) is a poet, journalist and literary critic.

William Radice (b.1951) is an orientalist.

Neil Rhodes (b.1953) is a professor of English literature.

Christopher Michael Zithulele Mann (b.1948) is a poet.

Alan James Hollinghurst (b.1954) is a novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.

Sir Andrew Motion (b.1952) is a poet, novelist, and biographer.

Michael King (fl. 1972-...) is a writer.

Gordon D. Wattles (fl. 1982).

James A. Leader (b.1964) is poet, novelist and translator.

W. D. Morris (fl. 1986).

Bruce John Gibson (fl. 1987-...) is a classicist.

Michael Felix Suarez (b.1960) is a historian of the book.